Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.
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Theophile Gautier was a 19th-century French poet, dramatist and novelist. Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia →